Hacker News: rokkitmensch

There's Nothing Small About Microfeminism

rokkitmensch — Sat, 11 May 2024 02:57:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thepersistent.com/microfeminism-tiktok-small-acts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40325692

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by rokkitmensch in "Personal AGI – Pushing GPT-4-turbo beyond all limits"

rokkitmensch — Fri, 10 May 2024 17:09:47 +0000

I want to see this supposed system...

NYPD union sues Adams administration over new zero tolerance policy on steroids

rokkitmensch — Fri, 10 May 2024 06:51:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/29/nypd-union-sues-adams-administration-over-new-zero-tolerance-policy-on-steroid-use-among-cops/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40316079

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Boeing whistleblower says he was pressured to hide defects

rokkitmensch — Fri, 10 May 2024 06:05:40 +0000

Article URL: https://thehill.com/business/4652759-boeing-whistleblower-says-he-was-pressured-to-hide-defects/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315860

Points: 25

# Comments: 1

New comment by rokkitmensch in "The Mega-Donor Who Colluded with OPEC"

rokkitmensch — Fri, 10 May 2024 03:53:10 +0000

bipartisan graft ftw

The Mega-Donor Who Colluded with OPEC

rokkitmensch — Fri, 10 May 2024 03:53:10 +0000

Article URL: https://prospect.org/power/2024-05-07-mega-donor-scott-sheffield-opec-exxonmobil/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315378

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by rokkitmensch in "Stellantis Warren Stamping workers approve strike over health and safety"

rokkitmensch — Thu, 09 May 2024 16:39:35 +0000

A shining example of incumbent unions failing their members, and their members taking matters into their own hands by rejecting union suggestions.

Stellantis Warren Stamping workers approve strike over health and safety

rokkitmensch — Thu, 09 May 2024 16:39:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/08/vzlj-m08.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310020

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by rokkitmensch in "I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code"

rokkitmensch — Thu, 09 May 2024 14:12:05 +0000

This is a very Lisper objection. The thing is a token predictor, and can't count levels of depth.

Think "autistic junior engineer, whose work needs lots of testing but is also prolific at writing tests" instead of "Godlike text generator", it's much more productive.

E-Jetcycle

rokkitmensch — Thu, 09 May 2024 02:26:22 +0000

Article URL: https://jetcycle.fr/en/ejetcycle/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304681

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by rokkitmensch in "Neighbors Are Retiring in Their 30s. Why Can't You?"

rokkitmensch — Wed, 08 May 2024 05:33:18 +0000

Don't have kids! Easy, done.

New comment by rokkitmensch in "Neighbors Are Retiring in Their 30s. Why Can't You?"

rokkitmensch — Wed, 08 May 2024 05:30:49 +0000

Absurdly long pieces about utterly irrelevant pieces are the norm from the Grey Lady these days.

I remember my early research classes (~2001), when they were upheld by my teachers to be the creme de la creme of publications. My how times have changed.

New comment by rokkitmensch in "Neighbors Are Retiring in Their 30s. Why Can't You?"

rokkitmensch — Wed, 08 May 2024 05:28:39 +0000

And doesn't quite cover us folks stuck with a single income.

Peru Port Dispute Escalates as Cosco Insists on Original Terms

rokkitmensch — Wed, 08 May 2024 01:56:46 +0000

Article URL: https://gcaptain.com/peru-port-dispute-escalates-as-cosco-insists-on-original-terms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40293618

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by rokkitmensch in "Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose"

rokkitmensch — Tue, 07 May 2024 14:08:02 +0000

Don't worry: Apples desktop quality is degrading so quickly it will be The Year of Linux on the Desktop by the end of the decade!

New comment by rokkitmensch in "Google, Meta 'break' Apple's device fingerprinting rules"

rokkitmensch — Tue, 07 May 2024 03:37:25 +0000

It's not that Linux on the desktop is closing the gap to Windows and MacOS, but that the latter two are aggressively shitting in the wine and gaslighting long-term users about the incredible improvements delivered every year. See: multi-monitor support, display management in general, window management, the accursed Spaces conceits, relocation of menubar toggles for sound and Bluetooth every OS release, pointless shuffling of the Settings app every release, comical degradation of iTunes over time... the list goes on.

My kids are coming up on Linux, and are never going to have the hallowed halls of 10.6 to look back on fondly.

It's sad, but every year I feel in a new way that we're merely strolling through a once-glorious cathedral built and abandoned by great engineers from a different era.

I felt this way at Google ~5 years ago, and left as soon as I could slip the golden handcuffs.

New comment by rokkitmensch in "Gas and propane stoves linked to 50k cases of childhood asthma, study finds"

rokkitmensch — Tue, 07 May 2024 02:52:03 +0000

This particular pearl-clutching trigger always comes down to "poor people with poor ventilation in their kitchens", which is a banal conclusion and so obviously not newsworthy.

I'm not entirely certain what submarine captain is committed to eradicating natural gas stoves (probably some assumed angle around smearing natgas in the name of reducing emissions.

All of that notwithstanding, this article fails my spam filters on the basis of "think of the children!"

New comment by rokkitmensch in "Sea Drone Warfare Has Arrived and the U.S. Is Floundering"

rokkitmensch — Mon, 06 May 2024 21:49:15 +0000

My homeland's staunch commitment to fighting the last war, and to doling out eye-watering budgets to defense contractors whose business model is to charge as much as possible while delivering as little as possible leaves me in despair some days.

Sea Drone Warfare Has Arrived and the U.S. Is Floundering

rokkitmensch — Mon, 06 May 2024 21:49:15 +0000

Article URL: https://gcaptain.com/sea-drone-warfare-has-arrived-and-the-u-s-is-floundering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40279891

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by rokkitmensch in "Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats"

rokkitmensch — Sun, 05 May 2024 07:05:56 +0000

Wall Street records all calls. Has forever, since long before storage was cheap.